Day 3 of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow

An overview of Saturday's action from Quail Hollow.

August 13, 2017 at 3:10AM
Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa, reacts on the ninth hole during the third round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Louis Oosthuizen (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Keep that card

Graham DeLaet: The Canadian, who has never won a professional tournament on American soil, played holes No. 13-16 in a ridiculous 6 under par, including back-to-back eagles on 14 and 15. He's six shots back of leader Kevin Kisner.

Toss that card

Jason Day: Only two shots off the lead beginning Saturday's play, Day plummeted down the leaderboard with a questionable decision on the final hole. Stuck behind a tree off the tee, he tried to hook the ball around it, sent it into the bushes and had to take a penalty stroke. He finished with a quadruple-bogey 8, a 77 and is tied for 16th at even par.

On the course with …

Chris Stroud: He could have been the leader, sitting at 8 under after a birdie at No. 14. But in playing the brutal three closing holes known as "The Green Mile," Stroud bogeyed Nos. 17 and 18 and is tied for second at 6 under. The PGA Championship is Stroud's first major in three years.

PGA moment

Marc Leishman and Billy Horschel gave fans a thrill at the par-5 No. 10, each knocking in an eagle on back-to-back shots. Leishman chipped in from 85 feet from the back of the green; Horschel followed a few seconds later by draining a chip from 29 feet from the front of the green.

Chip shots

• Bernd Wiesberger missed the cut for the first time in a year, falling out of the top 70 by three-putting his final hole of the second round early Saturday. That ended his streak of 28 consecutive cuts made dating to last year's PGA Championship.

• Of the 15 players who remained under par, Louis Oosthuizen is the only one who has won a major — and that was seven years ago (the 2010 British Open at St. Andrews).

Key hole

Par-5, 494-yard No. 18: Not everyone experienced Day's nightmare finish, but Quail Hollow's finishing hole — water left, thick trees right — spoiled several scorecards. Of the 75 golfers who played the hole Saturday, only Thorbjorn Olesen and Patrick Cantlay made birdie.

Quote of the day

"I didn't have it written in a diary from when I was young that I need to win a career Grand Slam as the youngest player ever — that wasn't the goal."

— Jordan Spieth, after an even-par 71 on Saturday left him 3 over for the tournament and out of contention

Tweet of the day

"Kevin Kisner, on the difficult pitch he played to the 18th: 'Don't want to be there [Sunday], for sure.' "

— Mike O'Malley, Golf Digest executive editor, after the third-round leader bounced his approach off a bridge and salvaged a bogey (@GD_MikeO)

Day 4

Kisner, whose best finish in a major is a tie for 12th in the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, takes his one-shot lead over Stroud and Hideki Matsuyama into the final round. Early coverage is on TNT beginning at 10 a.m.; Ch. 4 takes the baton at 1 p.m.

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